Translating Buddhism from Tibetan

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This complete textbook on classical Tibetan is suitable for beginning or intermediate students. It begins with rules for reading writing and pronouncing Tibetan, gradually carrying the reader through the patterns seen in the formation of words and into the repeating patterns of Tibetan phrases, clauses, and sentences. Students with prior experience will find the seven appendicesandmdash;which review the rules of pronunciation grammar and syntaxandmdash;provide an indispensable reference. It balances traditional Tibetan grammatical and syntactic analysis with a use of terminology that reflects English preconceptions about sentence structure. Based on the system developed by Jeffrey Hopkins at the Unversity of Virginia, this book presents in lessons with drills and reading exercises a practical introduction to Tibetan grammar syntax and technical vocabulary used in Buddhist works on philosophy and meditation. An extremely well designed learning system, it serves as an introduction to reading and translating and to Buddhist philosophy and meditation. Through easily memorizable paradigms the student comes to recognize and understand the recurrent patterns of the Tibetan language. Each chapter contains a vocabulary full of helpful Buddhist terms.connective, 220 list of, 216 occurring as words, 625 three sets of, 217 Tibetan
names of, 624 Cases, list of eight, 216, 623 Causative verb phrase, 614 Cause
and effect, 318, 377 Cause and effect relationship, 375 Causes, six types of, 318
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Translating Buddhism from Tibetan

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Joe Bransford Wilson

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Snow Lion Publications - 1992-01

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